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THE Commonweal A Weekly Review of Public Affairs, Literature, and the Arts THIRTY-THIRD YEAR OF PUBLICATION -week by weekEXPOSE THYSELF IN THEIR attempt to define the Western world of the...
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The Gift of Tongues "WHILE IN THE WEST IT IS DIFFICULT TO FIND A PRECEDENT FOR A LANGUAGE OTHER THAN LATIN, IN THE EAST IT HAS NEVER BEEN SO" BEDE GRIFFITHS ON THE DAY of Pentecost, we are told,...
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End of the Stockholder J. L BENVENISTI MANY YEARS AGO Lord Keynes made a prophecy which has not come true. He forecast the death of the rentier, which was to result from a superabundance of cheap...
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Past and Present JOHN LA FARCE ANYONE WHO attempts a retrospect of two or three decades, as I have have been asked to do, takes a certain chance. A good memory usually recalls too many details for...
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HERE AND THERE THE SCHOOL QUESTION AN EMINENT DIVINE, speaking before an important gathering of Presbyterians a few weeks ago, flatly described parochial education as "brainwashing." In a recent...
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THE SCREEN AGE OF THE VACUUM IF FILMS MUST be made about dope addiction (and it was inevitable that there would be a follow-up to "The Man with the Golden Arm" and "Monkey on My Back"), it is...
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OF NOTE COMMENTS ON THE COURT THE RECENT decisions of the Supreme Court in the Jencks, Watkins and Smith Act cases have provoked widespread editorial comment. The following quotations offer an...
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COMMUNICATIONS AID TO POLAND Jamestown, N. D. TO the Editors: I have read the Commonweal for quite a few years with an always growing interest. Recently the problem has come up of giving aid to...
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BOOKS High Standards and High Achievement THE FINEST STORIES OF SEAN O'FAOLAIN. Atlantic-Little, Brown. $4.75. By JAMES FINN WITH THE publication of this volume, which contains short stories...
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Vol. 066 Issue 014 (July 5 1957)
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